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A50625	A sermon preached at the funeral of Alexander Fraiser of Doores, Knight and baronet, principal physician to the King of Great Britain &c. who died at Whitehall, April 28, 1681, in the seventieth and fifth year of his age, and was solemnly interr'd amongst his ancestors at Doores the 28 of July following / by John Menzies.	Menzeis, John, 1624-1684.	1681 (1681)	Wing M1728; ESTC R28826	15,772	25

neither two heads nor two hearts and though we have two eyes yet I believe it is hard to look up and down with them at once Sure I am the Apostle puts these two in opposition Col 3 2 The setting of our affections on things above and not on things on earth He who would number his dayes aright would let but overly and mortified glances to the things of the world the strength of the heart must be set on things above Sixthly and lastly we would sequestrate a considerable portion of time dayly for this work to meditate on the brevity and uncertainty of our Life and of the great work God requires of us therein and we would charge our hearts without delay to set about it I have read how a godly Person gave a Prodigal a Gold-ring with a Deaths-head upon it on condition that he should dayly for the space of seven dayes look one hour thereupon which proved the mean of his Conversion Had the doing of this for seven dayes such success how much more by the Lords blessing were time sequestrate dayly thorow the whole course of our lives for numbering of our dayes might we hope for a blessed proficiency in this Heavenly Art So much have we spoken concerning this Text as we judged your patience would bear at such a time YOu expect I know before I close that something bespoken of the Honourable Person whose Funerals we now Celebrate And here I confess vvere a large Field vvere I fitted or disposed for a Panegyrick Nor is there want of great precedents in such cases from Nazianzen Ambrose and many others both ancient and modern Nor can it be denyed but that the doing justice to the memory of deserving persons may excite the living to trace the footsteps of the virtues of the dead Yet I not being accustomed to such Discourses and having a through aversion of what may savour of flattery I hope therefore I shall be the more easily excused if I be the more sparing on this head Though this worthy Gentleman did live much of his time abroad out of his Native Country yet the fame both of his Honour and Merit did overspread these three Kingdoms yea and did reach to other Nations also The antiquity of his Honourable Family of Doors is beyond dispute The Stock whereof was an immediat Son of the Great Thane of Cowy and Doors for so I understand he was designed upwards of three hundred years ago at the same time that another Son of the same Great Thane married the noble Heretrix of Philorth The Estate possest by the Thane was very vast about these Grampian Mountains and of him and of the great Lord Fraiser in the South two Families of the same name of so great Antiquity that it is hard to account which did come of the other yet of these two many noble Families of this Kingdom acknowledge themselves to be descended and therefore have the Fraisers Arms quartered with their own But I confess I am not Herauld enough to dilate upon this Subject Should any say to me with him in the Poet Et Genus Proavus quae non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voco Though none I hope will deny a due esteem to an Honourable Descent unless he be of a levelling Principle Yea the holy Scripture speaks honourably of the sons of Nobles Eccles 10.17 Yet I have this to add that besides this Gentlemans honourable descent he was a man of eminent personal worth and merit whereof take this one instance among many that when this family of Doores had lately suffered an eclipse as ancient Houses have their vicissitudes he by his virtue and industry recovered it from a collapsed condition He might without all peradventure have made comfortable Purchases in the pleasant places of England yet such was his love to his native Country and to this ancient Seat of his Ancestors that he choosed rather to make an Atchievment here And now having provided his other worthy and well-deserving Children of riper years hath transmitted this old Heretage of his Progenitors with all its Dignities to his hopeful Son here present who by the Mother a Lady of great Virtue is descended of the honourable Name of Caries in England a Family which bears as noble marks of Honour and ancient Pedegree as most of the Noblest Families in that Kingdom This his youngest Son he sent hither to be educated and who I trust by the mercy of God shall inherit many of the Virtues of his Predecessors So that he had both the Dignity of an honourable Descent and likewise which in conjunction with the former I believe will be highly esteemed by all of a just and virtuous Acquisition This may seem much yet I see an Ocean before me on which I dare hardly adventure But one thing I cannot let passe his unstained Loyalty to his Soveraign in times of great trouble and temptation He was fourty years and upwards a Courtier in the Reign of two Kings and beheld with sorrowful eyes the most dismal convulsions which ever these Kingdoms did suffer yet was he never stained with a blot of disloyalty He was educated a Schollar at Aberdeen the time when his Family fell low And after he had spent some years in his youth over Seas in pursuance of his Studies and had been Graduated Doctor of Medicine at Piemont he was so much noticed in the Court of England at his return for his Learning and Skill in that excellent Faculty which he did profess that in the year 1639. he was chosen Physician in ordinary to King Charles the first of glorious Memory and served his Majesty faithfully in Peace and War both in his Profession and other eminent Services untill the evils of the time encreasing he was by special order from his Majesty sent to attend the Prince then in Flanders with whom he continued doing many considerable services untill our Dread Soveraign who now reigns and whom Almighty God long preserve came to Scotland in the year 1650. And his Majesty again departing beyond Seas the confusions of the Times still prevailing he was among the first who repaired to his Majesty leaving Family and Employment which he might have had very considerable esteemed it his greatest Honour and Advantage to suffer hardships in serving his Prince In consideration of this constant Fidelity and Loyalty and exposing of himself to many hazards in his Princes Service It pleased his Gracious Majesty at his happy Restauration to settle him as Principal Physician to have the care and inspection of his Royal Person In this great Trust he continued untill his death and so great was the confidence his Majesty had both of his Skill and Faithfulness that he would not readily take Physick without him Amongst the many marks of his Princes favour the Honour of Baronet was conferred upon him besides the Places and Preferments settled on his Lady and Children Nay so gracious a Prince did he serve that his favour did not expire with the life of his faithful Servant And therefore gave order to transmit his Remains in one of his Royal Ships unto Scotland to be buried in the Sepulchre of his Fathers It would take a Volume to recount all the Offices of kindness he did to his Country-men by his friendship by his skill in Medicine and when occasion did require by his Purse also A man he was of great Generosity Integrity and a most faithful and fast Friend These things could not but purchase to him admirable repute Hence it was that when within these few years he made a visit to his Native Country and lived some Months here at Doores a great confluence of persons of eminent quality resorted hither to pay their respects to him all whom he entertained nobly And yet disdained not to give his most Judicious Consultations to multitudes of Diseased Persons who also flocked to him from all quarters for Cure of obstinate Maladies which had given defiance to the skill of other Physicians all which he did Gratis Nor did his Country-men more rejoyce in his Converse among them in that little interval then he was longed for again at Court as was manifest by many Letters he receiv'd at the time from great Persons at Court and by his gracious Reception from his Soveraign at his return Had any of the Divines who attended him in his Sickness been performing this last Office to him I doubt not but they could have given an account of his Religious Deportment at Death all who knew him here will witness to his Temperance and Sobriety his constant adherence to the Protestant Religion was manifest to all It was by his Charity and Supply with the concurrence of his Servants thorow his direction and the influence assistance and considerable expence of a most deserving Friend and Relation of his that the Pious Work of the Bridge of Dy towards which a sum of Money was Mortified by a Reverend Minister though that without the assistance foresaid could never have done it was promoved and brought to the finishing Cubit And it is by his means that this old Place and Church where his Fathers did Worship God is now repaired or rather re-builded There is one instance more of his Piety which if I should forget I should be unjust to his memory He was pleased to favour me with some Letters in reference to his beloved Son and I must declare that so far as I remember he never did omit in any of them to request that his Son might be religiously educated in the fear of the Lord solemnly protesting He would rather have him good than great These were his own expressions whereof I found my self often obliged to put his hopeful Son in rememberance